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 F i l m P e o p l e D - G
Austrian, German and Swiss Film People in Hollywood (Part 2 - D-G)
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“Jeden Morgen, mein Brot zu verdienen,
Gehe ich auf den Markt, wo Lügen gekauft werden.
Hoffnungsvoll
Reihe ich mich ein zwischen die Verkäufer.”
“Every morning, to earn my bread,
I go to the market where lies are bought.
Full of hope
I line up among the salesmen.”
— Bert Brecht, German playwright - From Deutschsprachige Künstler in Hollywood: Emigration zwischen 1910-1945
by Cornelius Schnauber (InterNationes, 1996). English translation by Hyde Flippo.
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Helmut Dantine (1917-1982)
Austrian actor (Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, War and Peace, Thundering Jets - as director). Dantine was also the executive producer for three films in the 1970s.
Elfi (Elfriede) von Dassanowsky (1924- )
Austrian opera singer, pianist, actress, film studio founder, and producer. For more about this multifaceted lady see our Elfi von Dassanowsky Interview.
Lya De Putti (1901-1931)
Hungarian actress who worked for Ufa in Germany (most notably with director E.A. Dupont) and later in Hollywood. She died young following an operation in New York. Her films include: The Prince of Tempters (1926), The Sorrows of Satan (1926), The Heart Thief (1927), Buck Privates (1928).
William Dieterle (Wilhelm Dieterle, 1893-1972)
German director born in Ludwigshafen. He was both an actor and director in Germany. Arriving in Hollywood in 1930, Dieterle made several German-language films there. He worked first for Warner Bros. and then RKO. Films: Kismet (1930, German), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Juarez (1939), Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, with Curt Bois), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), Kismet (1944, with Marlene Dietrich), Rope of Sand (1949), Salome (1953), Elephant Walk (1954, with Elizabeth Taylor).
Marlene Dietrich (1902-1992)
German-American actress (The Blue Angel, Destry Rides Again, Witness for the Prosecution).
Ludwig Donath (1900-1967)
Austrian actor, director. Born in Vienna and active on the stage there and in Munich and Berlin, Donath's German-language career ended with the rise of the Nazis. After learning English in London, a penniless, friendless Donath went to Hollywood. After a successful series of film roles in the 1940s and early '50s, Donath encountered the same HUAC persecution as his fellow Austrian Mady Christians (above). Unlike Christians, Donath was able to return to films in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966) shortly before his death in New York in 1967. Films: Margin for Error (1943, as voice of Hitler only in this Otto Preminger film), The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943), Lady from Chungking (1943), The Seventh Cross (1945), Blondie Knows Best (1946), Return of Monte Christo (1946), Veils of Bagdad (1953), and Death Trap (1966).
Ernest Dryden (Ernst Deutsch-Dryden, 1887-1938)
Austrian costume designer. In his short Hollywood career (after 1934) Dryden designed costumes for just nine films, but his fashions graced the likes of Mary Astor (The Prisoner of Zenda), Marlene Dietrich (The Garden of Allah), and Jane Wyatt (Lost Horizon). He died of a heart attack five days after Hitler's annexation of Dryden's Austrian homeland.
E.A. Dupont (Ewald Andre Dupont, 1891-1956)
German director. Dupont was a film critic turned director in Germany before working in Britain and America. Fellow German Carl Laemmle invited Dupont to direct at Universal in 1933. After directing a series of mostly forgettable films, Dupont became a talent agent for a while, then returned to directing. His last film was Return to Treasure Island in 1954.
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Uli Edel (1947- )
German director of Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna, Willem Defoe, and Jürgen Prochnow. Edel also helmed the made-for-TV movie Caesar which premiered on the TNT network in June 2003.
Bernd Eichinger (1949- )
German producer based in Los Angeles since 1989. Eichinger is known for putting together European films with top Hollywood stars. The Name of the Rose (1986) and House of the Spirits (1993) were both bigger hits in Europe than in the US, despite big names like Sean Connery in Name and Meryl Streep in House. Eichinger's 1994 German comedy hit, Der bewegte Mann (lit., "Man on the Move") was once thought to be set for a Hollywood remake, but it never happened.
Lotte Eisner (1896-1983)
German film historian born in Berlin. Eisner lived in Paris after fleeing Germany in 1933. Her famous 1952 book on German cinematic Expressionism, translated from the French as The Haunted Screen in 1969, was influential in Hollywood and other film capitals. She was a friend of Fritz Lang, about whose films she wrote.
Roland Emmerich (1955- )
German director. His Hollywood films include Universal Soldier (1992), Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla and The Patriot.
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Max Fleischer (1883-1972)
Austrian-American cartoonist and animator. See Betty Boop. Max's son, Richard Fleischer (below), was an important director until about 1975.
WEB LINK > Film100.com - Max Fleischer is number 29. (site no longer online)
Richard Fleischer (1916- )
American director. Fleischer, the son of Austrian animator Max Fleischer, directed a number of well-known movies, including: Bodyguard (1948), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Vikings (1958), Compulsion (1959), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Dr. Dolittle (1967), The Boston Strangler (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (co-dir., 1970), Soylent Green (1973).
William Fox (Wilhelm Fuchs, 1879-1952)
German-American founder of the Fox Film Corporation, later 20th Century Fox. Fox (Fried) was born to German-Jewish parents in what was then Austria-Hungary. He came to the US as a young child.
Christopher Franke (1953- )
German musician who has composed music for: Universal Soldier (1992, directed by Roland Emmerich), Tarzan and the Lost City (1998), and the TV series “Babylon 5.” - More links and more about Franke on our Music Connection page.
Karl Freund (1890-1969)
Austrian-American cinematographer who went from teen-age projectionist to award-winning cameraman. Freund started his career with the famous Ufa studios in Germany (Metropolis), later coming to the US (1929). In Hollywood he filmed Dracula (1931), Key Largo (1948) and the “I Love Lucy“ TV series in the 1950s (for which he developed the three-camera technique still used today to film TV edisodes before a live audience). He also directed The Mummy (1932) and Mad Love (1935, with Peter Lorre). He earned a best-cinematography Oscar for The Good Earth (1937) as well as various other awards for technical and artistic achievement.
Gert Fröbe (Frober, 1912-1988)
German actor, probably most famous as the villainous “Goldfinger” in the 1964 classic James Bond film. His other work includes Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and many French and German films.
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Bruno Ganz (1941- )
Ganz was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 22 March 1941. An actor largely unknown to American audiences, Ganz has appeared in few Hollywood films, one of the most recent being Strapless (1990). He began his film career in the 1960s and is better known in Europe and for his roles in many films by Wim Wenders, most notably in the acclaimed Wings of Desire (1987, remade by Hollywood in 1998 as City of Angels). Other Ganz appearances include: The American Friend (1977), The Boys from Brazil (1978), Nosferatu the Vampyre (a 1979 W. Herzog remake of the 1922 F.W. Murnau original), and Faraway So Close (1993), Wender's follow-up to Wings.
Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985)
Austrian fashion and costume designer. In the 1960s Gernreich was the avant-garde creator of the topless fashion craze and one of the best known fashion designers in the US. He designed costumes for Lana Turner in A Life of Her Own (1950) and Eva Marie Saint in Otto Preminger's Exodus (1960). Gernreich played himself in 2000 Years Later (1969), for which he also did the costume design.
H.R. Giger (1940- )
Swiss art director, set designer (Alien, Species)
Ernest Gold (Ernst Goldner, 1921- )
Austrian film composer
Samuel Goldwyn (Goldfish, 1882-1974)
Co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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